Welcome to the eighth Media Mailbag for The Athletic. Writing a mailbag — as egocentric as it is — is always a fun exercise. So thanks for sending in your questions via The Athletic website and app. Let’s get started.

How do the Sunday halftime shows for Fox/CBS work? With each network airing multiple games at once, they can’t all be hitting halftime at the same time. — Matt T

Good question. I figured we’d go right to the source. Here is Drew Kaliski, the producer of CBS’s NFL Today:

“CBS NFL halftimes are typically three segments and our preparation starts as soon as The NFL Today pregame show is over. With multiple 1 p.m. ET games you have to be able to do multiple halftimes simultaneously, so we need to protect ourselves with short segments that could run if we are doing multiple live halftimes at the same time. These are called “bridge” segments. For example, the first thing we have (host) James Brown do after the...